Hi Michael, Not sure if this will help you, but on occasion I've been presented with .pdf files to convert to (x)html for web-based tech docs. I do this manually by creating templates in the Visual Studio 2005 markup source code editors, and then copy and paste the content from the .pdf's. This way I have complete control over the structure, presentation and behavior of the resulting web doc.
This is ok if the .pdf's haven't been secured by a user name and password. If they have, then I'm outta luck as the copy/paste routine won't work. Personally, I wouldn't trust any .pdf to .html conversion app. If they exist, I feel it would create more work than what I already have to do in this scenario. Kind regards, Frank M. Palinkas Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help W3C HTML Working Group (H.T.M.L.W.G.) - Invited Expert M.C.P., M.C.T., M.C.S.E., M.C.D.B.A., A+ Senior Technical Communicator Web Standards & Accessibility Designer -------------------------------------------- website: http://frank.helpware.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- Member: Society for Technical Communications (S.T.C.) Guild of Accessible Web Designers (G.A.W.D.S.) Web Standards Group (W.S.G.) -------------------------------------------- Supergroup Trading Ltd. Sandhurst, Gauteng, South Africa website: http://www.supergroup.co.za -------------------------------------------- Work: +27 011 523 4931 Home: +27 011 455 5287 Fax: +27 011 455 3112 Mobile: +27 074 109 1908 -------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael MD Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2007 6:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues > Here is the thread that discussed making PDFs accessible: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg28067.html > > The effort involved in creating the PDFs in an accessible format will be > significant. > > Handheld users frequently avoid opening PDFs since they are often a large > file size - bandwidth and cost being the limiting factors here. how many mobile phone can read pdf? .. I suspect not many yet ... (I have yet to see one which can) btw does anyone know of anything that can export html (even if it is crap html) from a pdf ? (apart from Acrobat Pro itself - I can't justify spending that sort of money for just the occasional attempt to extract useful content from that occasasional pdf sent by clueless "media publicists" which would otherwise just be deleted) ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
